Christmas in Italy!

BUON NATALE!

Christmas morning

        It was so awesome to skype with you guys! I pretty much just laughed the whole time! Thanks for getting skype worked out so I could talk to EVERYONE at one time. All the other missionaries were jealous! Haha. Love you guys! Hey tell me what Dallan said during his Skype call. And how did Chantel and Mckay visit him? Haven't they read the white handbook :) haha

        Well Christmas was awesome this year! Sad to be away from my family, but I still got to talk to them and Sorella Felice and I had a great time. We got to sleep in, watch two movies, and spend a lot of time getting fed by members. It was fun to relax, but when Friday came around and we started working again...it actually felt really good! I even missed finding a bit! Love being a missionary. 

Dinner with the members!

A member has this in their house

          So the great thing about this time of year...is that all the members are having parties and this year...they decided to invite us missionaries! We went to this one party and everyone seemed kind of nervous to see all us six missionaries, but we started talking to them and soon became friends. the member came up to us after and told us about how her friends raved about how great we were and want us to come back! Slowly, slowly we are breaking down walls!  

 

My Italian best friend

          This Sunday I was asked to give a talk in church. We decided to see this as a great excuse to invite EVERYONE to church. I was once told that to get people to do something...you have to make it seem really cool. So we talked to all our friends, potentials, investigators and told them how I have been given the HUGE honor to talk in church in front of everyone and how this is a huge deal and they should put everything on hold and come see me speak. It kind of worked! A couple more people came to church! And we had a lot more questions and people seemed more interested in coming! Piano. Piano. Anyway I gave a talk on testimony and invited everyone to share their testimonies with other people. It was easier than I thought it would be...the language is coming very easily now! 

Birthday party! The mom is Sandra!

 

 

Our dear Sandra! 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay so we have this one investigator named Sandra. She is the mom of a recent convert...she's kind of scary and mysterious (she was the investigator of the Elders but they were too scared so they gave her to us), but we love her anyway.  A week ago we invited her to come to this church event, she came, and then she asked if she could come to church the next day! She came and she also came yesterday to see me speak! Her son had a Birthday this week so we had a little party in the church for him and she was so excited that we did that. We gave her a BOM and we have an appointment this week to read it with her so hopefully everything goes well. Lei e bravissima! 

Till next week!

Vi voglio un mondo bene! 

sorella Knudsen